Kill to Killed ratio

[Onyx13]

What is a good fighter kill to killed ratio. What is average.
I have been playing for about five months and almost 1 to 1 kill to killed. Is that good bad or about avg.

Thanks for the input.

[DMGOD]

do yourself a HUGE favor sir. DON'T LOOK AT SCORE. Play the game to have fun everything else will fall into place

[Lusche]

What is a good fighter kill to killed ratio. What is average.
I have been playing for about five months and almost 1 to 1 kill to killed. Is that good bad or about avg.

Depends on how you view it. The LW arena average on fighter mode is K/D 0.8... but less than 30% of all players do have K/D 1.0 or better. But of course, this includes all the 2-weekers.

do yourself a HUGE favor sir. DON'T LOOK AT SCORE. Play the game to have fun everything else will fall into place

What if you have fun by looking at the score?

[zack1234]

Anyone who has a good score wears high heel shoes

[Vinkman]

Depends on how you view it. The LW arena average on fighter mode is K/D 0.8... but less than 30% of all players do have K/D 1.0 or better. But of course, this includes all the 2-weekers.


What if you have fun by looking at the score?

Lusche what is 50-th percentile number of fighter hours flown in a tour? Have you ever run the stats for just the players in the 50-100% percentile? or even breaking it up by percentile. I fly a lot. Almost everyday for 2-4 hours a day. I see about the same 400-500 names over and over again. But there are 4-5 thousand subcribers.  So If I see I'm ranked 460 nfighter score, I'm thinking that probably isn't very good, becasue the real competitive set is probably only 500-700 people who fly a lot. Do you have a histogram of the hours flown by player? I'm going to guess it's very right shifted. Do you think it would add clarity to run the stats only on the right half of the curve?


 

[CAP1]

do yourself a HUGE favor sir. DON'T LOOK AT SCORE. Play the game to have fun everything else will fall into place

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

what he said.

[68ZooM]

do yourself a HUGE favor sir. DON'T LOOK AT SCORE. Play the game to have fun everything else will fall into place

best advice right there

[Lusche]

Lusche what is 50-th percentile number of fighter hours flown in a tour? Have you ever run the stats for just the players in the 50-100% percentile? or even breaking it up by percentile.

I have done a few analysis based on flight time, # of sorties and so on. But this has relatively little impact on the total numbers, because if you only take the top 50% in time flown, you will get rid of a lot of 2-weekers, but also on a lot of "top scores" that happen to fly most of their sorties in attack mode.

Which again shows that score itself only tells so much.... or little

[Raptor]

Haven't done much flying this tour, but start of tour I had about 18 kills to 2 deaths (by enemy fighters).
Now I tend to bail out when the fight is stale or if a squadie find another fight in another area, so that drastically dropped my K/D ratio. I don't change scoring mode ever (bomber, attack, fighter) so upping at capped fields doesn't help either, so my K/D ratio is very low. If I wanted to keep it high, I could easily do so. But that is not fun to me so I do not worry about it.

[caldera]

Score can be easily manipulated to give a higher than "normal" rating.  Suppose everything about the way you fly is considered your "normal".  The plane choice, SA, risk-taking, etc.  Now, limit your fighter sorties to instances with a short trip and high propability of success (like a vulch party off a CV).  The ack is down and there are a few brave pilots trying to save the town against superior numbers.  You pick a F4U-1C and make the short trip to hover over the enemy field.  In no time at all,  you've bagged a bunch of sitting ducks with 4 20mm cannons.  Your landing is welcomed by a cacophony of WTFG!!!s on your clinic of aerial mastery.  Now your Kills, K/D, K/T, and Hit% are all much higher than your established "normal".  Do this a bunch of times and your score will pole vault way up there without your flying improving one iota. 

Don't worry about other pilot scores as you don't know how they fly.  Hook up with a trainer and they will help you improve.

[dirtdart]

I can understand your concern about asking about KD ratio.  Some clowns out there will click on you to measure you up after a fight and then use your score as a tool to mock you or inflate their own egos.  The second I learned there was a scoring system in this game it changed the way I fly.  In many ways I wished I never had.  Now, it is just a nice personal challenge to get a high KD, but sometimes that comes with a cost.  I got to 17 to 1 during one tour (low compared to some), but had zero fun in the process.  Folks will accuse you of running away from a fight constantly.  In reality you may just be seeking to get back into the fight on better terms for your own survivability.  This is more realistic in a simulator sense, but still open for mockery on 200.  So, nothing in this world is free. 

If you spend time on the BBs picking the hints up, spend time in the DA with good sticks, hell just pick a plane and stick with it until you are comfortable fighting 2 to 3 guys, your KD will start to go up without you even noticing it.  Frankly I wish people would try to have higher KDs because some are apt to HO everything in sight until they run out of ammo or die.  Then they up and repeat.  The "Xbox" guys. 

 

[Dragon]

What is a good fighter kill to killed ratio. What is average.
I have been playing for about five months and almost 1 to 1 kill to killed. Is that good bad or about avg.

Thanks for the input.

Hey, that's better than my .47 K to D 

[maddafinga]

The only stat I really care about is my hit percentage.  I can tell if something is off somewhere if it starts to drop.  If I'm shooting good, then I'm killing well, and everything else falls into place.  I don't mind fighting several guys, only to get killed without getting one of them.  My k/d doesn't really effect me one way or the other.  I do really really hate missing kill shots on a bad guy and then ending up getting killed by him.  I'll get killed over and over and not care, but I sure hate losing a fight due to gunnery or rubber bullets that I really should have won.  Hit percentage is where it's all at for me. 

[Zoney]

I use the score to judge myself.  Not even to judge myself against others.  The hit % can tell me if my aim is approving/declining etc.

I think the score is a valuable tool if you do not focus on how to improve your score but rather improve your skill and see what that does to your score.

I fly more as a sim than a game.  I abhorr a wasted aircraft so I don't auger or bail to get to another fight.  Frankly I have never bailed from any aircraft and never will.  You shoot my wings off, you get to see me fall to the earth and crash.

I try to fly home after every sortie, cripple aircraft, crippled pilot, you name it, I am going to die trying to rtb.  I am never in a hurry to get to the fight or get the next kill.

The guys that say "score means nothing", well maybe, but I bet they know what their score is.

[JunkyII]

I up at vulched fields so my score is jacked up